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I was reading the asc article on Godzilla king of the monsters where it mentions that Lawrence Sher and the team shot on panavision c series anamorphics on the Alexa 65, using spherical lenses when needed for more challenging effects shots but what would the practical point of using c series (mind you it doesn't say whether they were expanded) on an Alexa 65 for a typical release? I thought it could help for vfx but they used spherical lenses for when they needed more resolution, so was it purely aesthetic? Why go for it with the anamorphic lenses instead of the xt studio they were also considering? https://theasc.com/articles/royal-rumble-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters

Beasts Of No Nation has just been released worldwide on Netflix today and will be in a few selected theaters in the US as well, I've seen it this morning and found it to be absolutely outstanding. Contrary to Fukunaga's previous projects (except his Sleepwalking In The Rift short shot on a 5D), this wasn't shot on film, but rather, as he said it in an interview on Hitfix, on the Alexa with Panavision C-series lenses, he talked about shooting it on super 16 at first, but there were no labs around and it would have taken a week for them to get the dailies back and it was just impossible, so he chose the Alexa. I wanted to know what you guys think about it, it looks absolutely gorgeous, very naturalistic, with those characteristic anamorphic flares, blue streaks, and barrel distortion, the Panavision anamorphic look, it also had some beautiful bloomy qualities on whites in one scene in particular, also, Fukunaga not only wrote and directed the movie, he also DPed and operated the camera himself as his camera operator pulled his hamstring one day in. Quite the astonishing feat ! See this movie.